Similarly, if you still use the password you were using in July , or before that date, on any other sites or services you should update them immediately. Passwords that would take a simple cracker mere seconds to crack.
Unfortunately, Nexus Mods did not send out breach notifications — perhaps because it is from a previous time when its database was compromised; it also is not forcing users to change their passwords as they may no longer have access to the email used when registering a user account, Scott explained. Not only will this mean you no longer need to visit the forums to change your details, but it will also allow us to implement much stronger encryption of user data.
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Top 10 breaches of personal data in Scott soon became tired with the revenue of the websites being split when he was operating the websites by himself, and made the decision to break away from TESSource in and founded his own website under the name of TESNexus. Scott made use of the TESSource website with his new venture. This resulted in more than additional games being supported by early As of January , Nexus Mods had a reported five million users.
Revenue instead came from premium memberships, with the site otherwise free. In November , Nexus Mods announced that due to the release of Fallout 4 , the website had over ten million registered members. In December, [6] the website reported a possible security breach of account names, and recommended that its members change their passwords.
Mods hosted on the site can change games in a number of ways, from adding a first-person perspective [10] to adding fully developed worldspaces with voice-acted quests. The website's hosting and publication of various mods has been covered in the gaming and computer press. Nexus Mods requires users to register before uploading any files or downloading files over a certain file-size limit.
Each account and file page is also integrated with the Nexus Forums. In June , wide-ranging theft of NexusMods mods for other corporate mod websites was noted in the press, with Nexus owner Robin Scott Dark0ne criticizing Bethesda's lack of response to the issue.
Although there was already an extensive permissions system for mods, the addition to the system for console modding allowed users to select what their intent for the mod was in terms of use, and where they would allow it to be available. It also allowed 'console players to search the Nexus system for mods they can find via their console's Bethesda. The Nexus Mods network supported games as of December , and features a single forum and a wiki for site and mod-related topics.
As of December , games with the most mods hosted were:. Recently, the Nexus Mods site expanded to serve as a host for mod files for any modifiable PC game.
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